1. Kerala rain forests: Brahmin priests teach sounds from beginning of human time
Incantations from father to son
Whole tracts that had no meaning…based upon birdsong
Can’t be written down, just sung
2. Tamil Nadu
M130 gene unchanging roots of india
DNA of people in Tamil Nadu are out of Africa 70,000 years ago
Marrying first cousins so earliest genes are handed down
Language is only 10,000 years old
3. Temple of Madurai
Oldest religion: the female goddess and the power of the natural world and multiplicity of the universe. The divine is not onefold but millionfold.
Unity in diversity
4. 5,000 BC Indus Valley Civilization Harappa: Punjab
Invention of Agriculture then Cities
Law, writing, large-scale architecture
Discovered in 1920 when Britain’s ruled India
Like Iraq, China, Egypt, Indus built on a river
Contemporary with pyramids
Hey day 2000 BC Mehenjo Daro
another site in Indus Valley
An ancient manhattan
The whole Indus valley biggest population
Then decline??
The Himalayas created the monsoons which made Indus valley
Environment and climate shape the human story
3,500 years ago a decrease in the strength of monsoons
then a major shift eastward into Ganges of civilizations
5. Varanasi Plain of the river Ganges
1500 BC an Indian language and literature Sanskrit
Sanskrit root of a billion people
Where did Sanskrit come from?
Braham boys learn Sanskrit to recite Veda scripture (Hindu)
Orally transmitted
1000 hymms called the RigVeda (praise knowledge) of Bronze Age
What is the secret code of the Rigveda
Aryan texts are basis of Latin, Greek, English
Where did Aryans come from? (the socialized people)
Rig Veda clues
Gods: Indra god of thunder and sky and chariots and horses, migration from west from the Kubal river in Afganistan.
6. Gunar Tepe (ancient Iranian zororastrian site)
Aryans came from Peshewa
Sacred drink: Soma: honey, ephedra, poppy, cannibis enlivens the senses, composed their songs
Ephedra Not an Indian plant
comes from beyond afghan mountains into Turkmenistan, along ancient silk road
Climate change destroyed the cities in Turkmenistan along with Indus Valley
Soma prepared here: poppy, cannibis ephedra & horses & carts not chariots
9000 out of turkey
2000 bc iran, afganistan, India
imposing their culture on the native Indians
7. **Mahabharat**
Great warfare among Aryans
Like troy, a story of war, family feud, and human conditoin
Men and gods walked the earth together during Krisna time
Composed at birth of Christ
Everything was incorporated into it
Create a shared past making an allegiance to the idea of India,
Hastinapur beside the ancient river Ganges
Great flood washed away Hastinpur
Name, flood, pottery links Mabharat to Hastinpur
Everyone invaded it after that
1. Kerala rain forests: Brahmin priests teach sounds from beginning of human time
Incantations from father to son
Whole tracts that had no meaning…based upon birdsong
Can’t be written down, just sung
2. Tamil Nadu
M130 gene unchanging roots of india
DNA of people in Tamil Nadu are out of Africa 70,000 years ago
Marrying first cousins so earliest genes are handed down
Language is only 10,000 years old
3. Temple of Madurai
Oldest religion: the female goddess and the power of the natural world and multiplicity of the universe. The divine is not onefold but millionfold.
Unity in diversity
4. 5,000 BC Indus Valley Civilization
Harappa: Punjab
Invention of Agriculture then Cities
Law, writing, large-scale architecture
Discovered in 1920 when Britain’s ruled India
Like Iraq, China, Egypt, Indus built on a river
Contemporary with pyramids
Hey day 2000 BC
Mehenjo Daro
another site in Indus Valley
An ancient manhattan
The whole Indus valley biggest population
Then decline??
The Himalayas created the monsoons which made Indus valley
Environment and climate shape the human story
3,500 years ago a decrease in the strength of monsoons
then a major shift eastward into Ganges of civilizations
5. Varanasi
Plain of the river Ganges
1500 BC an Indian language and literature Sanskrit
Sanskrit root of a billion people
Where did Sanskrit come from?
Braham boys learn Sanskrit to recite Veda scripture (Hindu)
Orally transmitted
1000 hymms called the RigVeda (praise knowledge) of Bronze Age
What is the secret code of the Rigveda
Aryan texts are basis of Latin, Greek, English
Where did Aryans come from? (the socialized people)
Rig Veda clues
Gods: Indra god of thunder and sky and chariots and horses, migration from west from the Kubal river in Afganistan.
6. Gunar Tepe (ancient Iranian zororastrian site)
Aryans came from Peshewa
Sacred drink: Soma: honey, ephedra, poppy, cannibis enlivens the senses, composed their songs
Ephedra Not an Indian plant
comes from beyond afghan mountains into Turkmenistan, along ancient silk road
Climate change destroyed the cities in Turkmenistan along with Indus Valley
Soma prepared here: poppy, cannibis ephedra & horses & carts not chariots
9000 out of turkey
2000 bc iran, afganistan, India
imposing their culture on the native Indians
7. **Mahabharat**
Great warfare among Aryans
Like troy, a story of war, family feud, and human conditoin
Men and gods walked the earth together during Krisna time
Composed at birth of Christ
Everything was incorporated into it
Create a shared past making an allegiance to the idea of India,
Hastinapur beside the ancient river Ganges
Great flood washed away Hastinpur
Name, flood, pottery links Mabharat to Hastinpur
Everyone invaded it after that